Catherine Emberson, chair of Todmorden Antiquarians, will talk about the life and writing of local author and artist William Holt. William (Billy) Holt was an artist, writer, traveller, broadcaster, inventor and political activist, and is remembered locally as a ‘colourful character’....

Crossing the Mirror Line explores doubleness and the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections. Like the eighteenth-century artists’ landscape mirror that reconfigured the relationship between the viewer and what is viewed, the poems in Judith Willson’s first collection are concerned with the very act of...

Helen Pankhurst, the great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline, will discuss her new book, Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now. Kate Moreton-Deakin, Deputy Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, will introduce the event....